About this episode

The episode discusses the unrealistic expectations people set for themselves during summer break and the contrasting feelings of overwhelm when the academic year begins.

You know how, when teaching finishes for the summer, you feel all-powerful and end up vastly over-estimating how much you'll be able to get done before the new academic year? And, have you ever noticed that the opposite happens once term starts up again: you're overwhelmed, you panic because you don't think you're going to manage to do everything, but then you surprise yourself and it's all fine in the end? Yeah, well, there's a reason for that. Join your imperfectionist pal for a speculative...

People in this episode

Host: Rebecca Roache

Topics covered

• summer plans
• academic year
• overwhelm
• bias
• self-improvement

Keywords

• summer
• academic
• overwhelm
• planning
• self-improvement

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